The Q+ Colleague Network, co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Democracy, are glad to present Sarah Schulman reading selected excerpts from 'Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, New York' (2020, Macmillan).
Sarah Schulman reads selected excerpts from her latest book 'Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, New York' (2020, Macmillan).
Twenty years in the making, Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism. Rejecting the whitening of AIDS history, and examining the movements' mistakes as well as victories, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration- and long-overdue reassessment- of the coalition’s inner workings, conflicts and achievements, and ultimate fracture.
Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in the process created a liveable future for generations of people across the world. The book demonstrates that “the history of Act Up is the history of a group… any kind of history of Aids that focuses on the heroic individual is a distortion” (Sarah Schulman).
The reading will be followed by a live Q&A.
